Samira Tehranchi-Nichols

Do not hire her. Believe all these 1 star reviews below. We hired her without reading reviews and had such a difficult time with her. Her modus operandi is calling back immediately after you first contact her, sounding very professional. However once you complete her payment she will not respond to e...mails, requiring multiple emails. And whenever she would respond, provide poor quality work where you will end up drafting documents yourself. In addition provided false information to my employer. I wonder if she is truly a lawyer or not.

Since the termination letter has been signed by her, I am more confident in writing this review, as I am not held down by the attorney-client relationship (as well as seeing her write details about her previous deals with clients including monetary details of the contract). First, we spoke in Novemb...er 2017, and she was not sure about my case and prioritised other clients of hers and didn't speak to me for months. Next, I emailed her January 2018 and she didn't respond, prioritising other clients. End of February is when she decided to finally speak, and it was all sweet talk. From March till the next 10 months I made continuous payments and she never really reached back all these months. recommendations on October, and then didn't respond. Finally, after a lot of hustle I managed to get 6 recommendations written and approved (given I wrote most of the recommendations because it was my field of expertise). The only way you can get any work done from her is by sweet talking and showing her that she is best at her game. Her strategy is to play busy, she will cancel calls, say she has called you (when she actually hasn't), not get back to emails, so that you have to either give her the most importance or sweet talk to her (even if she is one of the most unprofessional person I have had to deal with). After getting 6 recommendations I was so tired of all the sweet talking that I decided to see whether she would ever get back, schedule calls or even pay importance to the case. The answer is nope! In these few years, whenever I have reached back to her, all she uses phrases like "don't consider the case as 5-6 years old, consider it as a new one", "you were not confident in your case". I reminded her that if I wasn't confident in my case,why would I have invested so much money (given she charges more than other higher qualified attorneys ) by doing a careful market survey. After 5 years of extreme unprofessional behaviour and not having the case progress at all, I got hit by the massive tech layoffs, I had no choice but to leave US. Finding a job in this scenario staying abroad becomes even more difficult, and my mental health was on the verge of a brekadown (given I was not close to the bay area and relocating within 60 days and finding a job was impossible). She offered me a termination letter citing she has moved to a big law firm and would return only 25% of the money which I paid to her. After all the hassle, unprofessionalism and a chance to have stayed in the country and continue my job search, I receive a letter of termination with only 25% of the money. Leave aside the pain in dealing with her owing to her extreme unprofessionalism, the monetary loss in not having a chance to search for a job is even more. I wouldn't have written this review if I hadn't gone through extreme mental exhaustion whenever I had to deal with her, including extreme unprofessional behaviour and the last nail in the coffin with the termination letter. I think the only reason why she gets away with this behaviour is because she knows that immigrants don't get back and sue lawyers who have at least temporarily contributed to ruining people's careers.